Colouring game and generalized colouring game on graphs with cut-vertices

Elżbieta Sidorowicz

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Colouring game and generalized colouring game on graphs with cut-vertices

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Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Econometrics, University of Zielona Góra, Z. Szafrana 4a, 65-516 Zielona Góra, Poland

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For k ≥ 2 we define a class of graphs ₖ = {G: every block of G has at most k vertices}. The class ₖ contains among other graphs forests, Husimi trees, line graphs of forests, cactus graphs. We consider the colouring game and the generalized colouring game on graphs from ₖ.

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colouring game, generalized colouring game

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Colouring game and generalized colouring game on graphs with cut-vertices

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